Eyeon Connection Issues

I have had the chance to use the Connection Avid<>Fusion workflow in my latest project. Great stuff altogether but I find myself missing some functionality that I believe it really needs. Also I am running into a minor bug.

Prior to Connection I'd export media from Avid, fusionize it and re-import it to Avid. Then I could trim, retime, retrim the fusionized material to my liking. It seems that this is not possible now, with rendered footage from Connection. This really cripples the usage of this fine concept, since I rarely get the timing right on the first try =] So now I just re-import the rendered footage the old way and re-insert it, retime it, etc. But then the connection to the Fusion comp is lost... =\

Then the 'bug'. With every shot I connect to fusion the first frame is rendered brighter than the rest. This happens only when motion blur is enabled. I can animate this property for that frame but in most shots I need the blur on, also in the first frame. Anybody else experience this as well?

Hey Murc I have not experience the light frame you have but I do have a work around for you regarding the the retime issue. duplicate the saver in your comp and set it to jpg or tiff or what ever you want. then import that back into the avid. Throw it above the existing connection elements and do what ever saving your connection avx plugin below. Then when you need to go back it's just a video layer below. You just have to remember to version up the saver you generated if you version up your comp etc.

We are using connection on a daily basis with four systems and it's seems to be working well.

I knew it wasn't backwards compatible, but I had forgotten that little fact when today I opened a project with 1.0..all media seemed corrupted =\ caused a nice little heart attack for my client and I ... Then I remembered =D

We are on beta3 soon to be a release candidate. If you require it for (interlaced projects, obscure non-windows complient Avid naming ) email me at jeff(at)eyeonline(dot)com and I'll set you up.
cheers
Jeff